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300 Posts and Counting

Wow! Is it really the 300th post on Bombay Foodie. Already!

As is traditional on every 100 post interval, I present a new wishlist. First a report card : 31 things to do on my previous wishlist; 9 done. Which means that 22 make an appearance again and this one's got 9 brand new things to bring the total back to 31. So here goes, and I promise I will aim for a higher score next time round:

1. Eat at Alinea.

2. Delve into the alchemy of food. Create something, anything that qualifies as molecular gastronomy.

3. Make fresh pasta.

4. Taste blood oranges.

5. Cook with rhubarb.

6. Make mango pickle like mom.

7. Eat a Meyer lemon.

8. Make S'Mores.

9. Buy blue cornmeal.

10. Try Ethiopian cuisine.

11. Taste Gucchhi (morels).

12. Cook with Rice Paper.

13. Make Vienese Fingers.

14. Make souffle.

15. Taste Absinthe.

16. Make Blinis.

17. Make dolmas.

18. Taste fried halloumi.

19. Make a flambe dish.

20. Make fondue (cheese or chocolate?).

21. Taste fiddleheads.

22. Make khandvi.

23. Make madeleines.

24. Learn to temper chocolate.

25. Make caramel candies.

26. Make puff pastry cream rolls.

27. Perfect cinnamon buns.

28. Make crisp almond cookie I ate at global fusion.

29. Bake a Japanese light cheesecake.

30. Make a double crust pie and a lattice pie.

31. Make Irish cream lookalike at home.

Comments

Jeanette said…
Congatulations! I just hit my 100! Good luck on your list.
Congratulations!!! Your wishlist is amazing... Good luck..
Poonam said…
hey :) congratulations on ur 300th post!!!
Desisoccermom said…
Congratulations Simran on 300 posts. That is amazing! As is your list. Good luck with it.
Kalyan Karmakar said…
Congrats and here's to many more posts on your wish list coming through
CurryLeaf said…
Wow,love the new wishlist.Mine too are similar like making flambeed dish,blinis and pasta.I am waiting for bluecornmeal,halloumi cheese,rhubarb etc.Also if you were here I would have given you my last batch of rice paper wraps and have tried ethiopian cuisine thgh I am not sure whether it was authentic or not.Am in search of madeleine molds..Well let me stop,Congrats Blog Behna on 300 posts.I am 27 more than you. :D
Srivalli said…
I serious love this "Delve into the alchemy of food. Create something, anything that qualifies as molecular gastronomy"...hhhehee

Looking fwd to you making the pickle like Mom

For a person who bakes so much souffle should be a child's play!

Most of the other things I can't even imagine myself making it..so eagerly waiting for you to make them before hitting 400!

Great job on 300 Simmi..
Unknown said…
300! Wow. That's awesome, congratulations :) I'm planning on making the japanese one later this month, we could do it together!
Myvegfare said…
Congrats girl, good job well done!!, sim I love reading your posts they are very interesting!! :)) of course I love the creations too...
Nachiketa said…
Congratulations!!!!!!! 300 posts.... that's awesome....

amazing list... i should get myself a list too... else i just keep meandering thru stuff...

all the best...

Cheers,
The Variable, Crazy Over Desserts - Nachiketa
Catch me on facebook @ Crazy Over Desserts

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